Sentences with phrase «republicans keep control»

A group of breakaway Democrats who have helped Republicans keep control of the Senate disbands and unites under the leadership of Stewart - Cousins.

All told, the group funded by New York City landlords spent more than $ 225,000 in its efforts to help Republicans keep control of the state Senate.

The results of a four - way primary for a New York Senate seat may help Republicans keep control of that house in the long run.

Critics said he made a deal to help Republicans keep control of the Senate in case Tkaczyk won.

The billionaire heirs to the Walmart fortune have thrown in $ 1 million to help embattled Republicans keep control of the New York state Senate, new campaign filings show.

A win by a candidate in a four - way primary for a state Senate seat Tuesday night may help Republicans keep control of the Senate in the long run.

That's just the kind of politician Cuomo is — an ultra-cynical lying snake who does things like help Republicans keep control of the state Senate, or lie about why Port Authority tolls are being raised, or get in a pissing match with New York Mayor Bill de Blasio out of pure spite.

The Republicans kept control of three seats on Long Island, two of which were either vacant or soon - to - be-vacant.

The independent expenditure committee backed by the New York State United Teachers union is increasing its efforts in the 60th Senate district, bolstering Democrat Amber Small in what is considering a linchpin for Republicans keeping control of the chamber.

Republicans kept control of the chamber following the 2016 general election.

With Trump in control of the White House and Republicans keeping control of both houses, the two unions have lost even more influence on the federal level.

Not exact matches

Diaz believes Republicans must look as if they care about keeping guns out of the hands of so - called homegrown extremists, while balancing issues of due process and the Constitution's Second Amendment right to bear arms that form the backbone of the NRA's opposition to gun control.

For months, the market had been pricing in a win by Clinton, and the idea that a Republican controlled Congress would keep her policies in check placated normally Republican Wall Street.

For Trump and the Republican Party, that could be a devastating development in a midterm election year, when the party is largely pinning its hopes of keeping control of Congress on economic success and Americans seeing a benefit from the tax overhaul the president signed in December.

Trump told Republicans to keep concealed carry provisions out of any gun control package this time.

me too Emma... Hate (what the HELL is Patriotic Christianity????) has taken control and fiscal responsiblily (which used to be the ADULT reason to support republicans) no longer exists in the Republican party... they have NOTHING positive going for them now... and the only people supporting them are small business owners who have «gotten their» and want to keep it or financially struggling bigots who imagine that «welfare queens» are taking all of their money in taxes.

The Republicans took control of County Hall for the first time in more than thirty years in 2013 and Erie County Chairman Nick Langworthy would like to keep it.

Senate Democrats retained two open seats in a Tuesday special election, giving them a numeric 32 - member majority in the chamber, but Sen. Simcha Felder will continue to conference with Republicans, keeping the GOP in control.

But wage - labourers, these republicans said, were kept «in a state of humble dependence» by the monopoly of control over landed and productive property.

I keep seeing headlines about how excited the current Republican majority is to pass all the legislation they ever wanted now that they have control of the House, Senate, and Executive office.

«It's ironic that an operative whose firm has received millions of dollars to keep the Senate in Republican control is speaking for the Democratic Governor about a Democratic Senate,» said Senate Democratic spokesman Mike Murphy.

Republican efforts to keep control of the state Senate took another hit when two popular GOP senators — the Hudson Valley's Bill Larkin, 90, and Tom Corci of Long Island — refused to say if they would run for re-election this fall.

The amendments, though voted down, come as Republicans in the state Senate have signaled support for possible gun control legislation, which could include making it harder for those deemed too dangerous to obtain a firearm and closing up loopholes in the prohibition against people convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence from keeping and obtaining guns.

Flanagan's comments amount to a familiar closing argument for Republicans in their bid to keep control of the narrowly divided state Senate: The chamber is the GOP's last lever of power statewide and Democratic control of state government could prove problematic.

And she said Cuomo should get an Oscar for playing a Democrat while tacitly supporting Republican control of the state Senate, which keeps progressive proposals blocked.

this was an unfair power set up by upstate Republicans to hold on to power and keep the downstate masses away from controlling the Senate.

She said Cuomo is beholden to his big - dollar donors, tarred by corruption, secretly supportive of keeping Republicans in power in the state senate, and to blame for the condition of the failing subways run by the state - controlled Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

The stakes are even higher this year, as a Jacobs win could potentially keep Republicans in control of the Senate.

And then there's his nonstop grudge match with eager lefty avatar New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, and years of Cuomo propping up a renegade faction of state senators who have helped keep the chamber in Republican control.

That's because these people who ran as Democrats actually kept the Republicans who control the Senate in very Blue State New York in power.

(CNN)-- Nevada Rep. Dean Heller told supporters Tuesday he intends to run for the seat being vacated by scandal - plagued Sen. John Ensign, a boost to national Republicans who view Heller as the best hope to keep the seat under GOP control.

And while there is still a core of good old fashioned morally and fiscally conservative Republicans at the heart of the GOP, the brain has been hijacked by some very bad players, who strategically keep secrets from that moral heart, in order to control their votes.

The slim Republican majority that came in last year resulted in Mr. Klein losing a number of the perks and powers he had when the IDC provided the margin of votes keeping the GOP in control of the body.

As leader of the five - member breakaway faction that allied with Republicans to form the chamber's governing coalition (and keep Democrats from assuming the control that should have accompanied their mathematical majority), Klein has been justifying the partnership since it formed in 2012 as a win for progressives, rather than as a means of self - empowerment.

Senate Republicans are scrapping to keep control of their slim majority in the face of investigations and illness and they have expressed a great hesitance to renew mayoral control under Bill de Blasio, New York's progressive mayor who worked to push the chamber into Democratic control in the recent election cycle.

She said Cuomo encouraged a «backroom deal» to get a group of Democratic senators to vote with the Senate GOP so that Republicans could keep control of the state Senate and added that he allowed the Republicans to draw their own gerrymandered district maps — a move she says suppressed Democratic voters.

Heading into the 2013 legislative session, Skelos forged a co-leadership agreement with Sen. Jeff Klein, a Bronx Democrat who leads the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference, that kept Republicans from losing control of the chamber.

In 2012, he struck an alliance with Republicans that kept the GOP in control of the chamber despite a numerical majority of Democratic senators.

After last year's elections, the SRCC successfully ousted three vulnerable Democratic incumbents and kept two seats on Long Island, one of which was vacant, in Republican control, resulting in the conference winning an outright majority in the 63 - seat chamber.

That's because another Democrat, Senator Simcha Felder, sits with the Republicans, giving them the minimum 32 - seat majority they need to keep control of the chamber.

But rather than pointing to state issues — like abortion rights or campaign finance — that Democrats typically highlight when arguing why Republican control of the chamber is bad, the governor kept his focus on the GOP in Washington.

ALBANY — State Senate Republican Majority Leader John Flanagan ripped Donald Trump's past vulgar comments about women as «deplorable and inexcusable,» but said he does not believe the controversy will hurt GOP efforts to keep control of the state Senate — even as the Democrats prepare to exploit the issue with ads and mailers.

Liberal detractors of the governor have accused him of helping Republicans keep power in the Senate by tacitly backing a power - sharing coalition with five breakaway Democrats, which last from 2013 through the end of last year, when the GOP gained full control.

This means according to Fred Dicker's sources in the Senate that, «Once the Republicans have control of the Senate again, even for a few weeks, they could hand out so many perks — staff allotments, office space, cars and other goodies — that they could buy off a couple of Democrats and keep themselves in control,»

After four years of further Democratic control of the Senate, Republicans were able to wrest control in the 2014 mid-term elections from Majority Leader Harry Reid, keeping it for the remaining two years of Obama's term.

But Ryan, after emergency meetings at which Republicans expressed panic over Trump's potential to negatively impact down - ballot races — perhaps putting the majority in jeopardy for the GOP along with control of the U.S. Senate — said he plans on turning all his attention to keeping his party in power.

Extending mayoral control of New York City schools picked up key Republican support on Thursday as Brooklyn Sen. Martin Golden announced support for keeping the arrangement in place.

By the time Scott Brown lost his senate seat, congress had already flipped to Republican control so he wasn't needed to keep the filibuster like when he was elected.

This line of thinking ignores, however, that Republicans gained controlled of the House in 2010 and kept it in 2012.

Bloomberg made significant donations to the state Republican Party to keep the GOP in control of the State Senate, which doomed the rent cap legislation since 2011.